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Re: Microsoft Access 97 Stores Database Password as Plaintext
From: Will_Cox () IMAGEINC COM (Will Cox)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:37:04 -0500
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 sozni () USA NET wrote:
The problem is that Access allocates the the space it needs for its tables but until used, that space will contain whatever used to be on those sectors on the hard drive.
Sounds like a problem with the OLE/COM rather than Access to me. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q139/4/32.asp http://www1.macintouch.com/o98security.html http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q189/3/76.asp But that doesn't seem to have much bearing on the password storage. /cwc
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